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Breakthrough innovation increasingly requires intense interaction that involves external parties jointly solving problems or exploring new opportunities. In healthcare, care coordination and transitions of care require coordination of patient care among multiple and often independent care settings that are often completely different systems of care, both professionally and institutionally. Multiparty...
Although a lot has been already written and developed on the theme of business and e-business transformations failures, there still is a very high rate of failures. These failures are very high because of the problems encountered in the implementation phase of a business transformation project. Traditional business managers often lack the skills necessary for the implementation of innovation and technology;...
Numerous studies conducted on the information technology (IT) acceptance specifically in developing and less-developed countries indicates the importance of acceptance as a substantial stage in the process of IT implementation. Perceiving problems, opportunities, threats and fundamentals makes this process more convenient. Considering numerous researches in the field of IT acceptance, this study provides...
Informationization of higher education management is an outcome of rapid development and wide application of modern information technology in the field of higher education. It plays an important role in management philosophy and management efficiency in higher education. In this paper, we introduce the concepts of informationization and informationization of higher education management at first. Then,...
Champions of innovation often play a major role in facilitating entrepreneurial behavior within organizations. Without the influence and efforts of these entrepreneurial champions, many organizational initiatives would not be successful. Examples of organizational initiatives which are often influenced by champions include: new product development, new internal ventures, intrappreneurship, implementing...
The chief information officer (CIO) role has evolved from keeper of the infrastructure under the chief financial officer (CFO), to an executive managing the organizationpsilas information base with a seat at the executive table and more recently to becoming the key strategic agent for the organizational use of technology. In the most advanced firms the CIO is the best indicated executive to move to...
This study examines how adaptive cross-community cooperation can applied to eliminating defects under circumstances of causal ambiguity. Based on a troubleshooting case involving semiconductor engineers, the study looks at how members of different communities engage in adaptive boundary-spanning cooperation in work contexts characterized by innovation, flexibility, extemporaneous relationships, and...
Non-linear business growth is a Holy Grail for executives today. There is a constant need for identification of newer business models, blockbuster products and excellent talent in breaking the linearity paradigm. The latter half of the 20th century has seen some of the major breakthroughs resulting into a significant surge in productivity. Some of these were technology, quality, adoption of management...
Sustained competitive advantages require continuous improvement for a company to maintain its strength or weakness in the marketplace. Information technologies play a crucial role for a competitive future. To create sustainable growth, role and performance measurement of information technologies in management processes such as strategic planning, audit etc. steadily increases in todaypsilas highly...
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